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With sales momentum, Bookshop.org looks to future in its fight with Amazon

TechCrunch

If Gutenberg were alive today, he’d be a very busy angel investor. With book sales booming during the COVID-19 lockdowns last year, the humble written word has suddenly drawn the limelight from VCs and founders. We’ve seen a whole cavalcade of new products and fundings, including algorithmic recommendation engine BingeBooks , book club startups like Literati and the aptly named BookClub , as well as streaming service Litnerd.

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History of MySQL Database

The Crazy Programmer

MySQL is a widely used relational open-source database management solution across the world. The history of MySQL goes back to when Monty Widenius in 1979 started working for the small firm named TcX and created the reporting tool that was written in a BASIC and ran on 4 Mhz computer and 16KB RAM. With time, this tool was again written in C & ported to run over Unix.

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Indonesia-based Rey Assurance launches its holistic approach to insurance with $1M in funding

TechCrunch

Rey Assurance co-founders Bobby Siagian and Evan Tanotogono. Health insurance is the kind of thing people usually only think about only when they need it. Otherwise, their policies are just paperwork in their files or cards in their wallet. Indonesian insurtech Rey Assurance is taking a new approach. Once someone becomes a member, they also get access to a platform of health services, including AI-based self-assessment tools, 24/7 telemedicine consultations for no added fee and pharmacy deliveri

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Avoiding Budget Overruns During Cloud Migration

DevOps.com

Many organizations have already started their migrations to the cloud, or soon plan to. It makes sense: The cloud is an attractive option for multiple reasons, including its potential for cost savings, scalability and support of continuous application development. However, benefits aside, it can be very easy for enterprises to lose financial control of a […].

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Groupon

Teradata

Groupon is modernizing with Vantage on AWS to better match its data & analytics with demands of its global business. The Cloud allows Groupon to better leverage infrastructure dollars, support more technology projects and capture opportunity.

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Ajax Datatable CRUD Operation Using PHP and MySQL

Php,Mysql,Jquery Tutorial And Interview Question

in this tutorial, We’ll learn about how to add add, edit, delete functionality using Bootstrap 5, PHP and MySQL.I am extending previous tutorial Ajax Pagination with Search and Sort. We have already added functionality to listing, searching, and sorting into datatable, So Let’s add functionality to CRUD operation without page refresh. We have already added […].

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Power and Influence

DevOps.com

The post Power and Influence appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CodeSOD: A Coded Escape

The Daily WTF

When evaluating a new development tool or framework, the first thing the smart developer does is check out the vendor documentation. Those docs will either be your best friend, or your worst enemy. A great product with bad documentation will provide nothing but frustration, but even a mediocre product with clean and clear documentation at least lets you get useful stuff done.

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Solving the Data Science Operationalization Dilemma with Vantage BYOM

Teradata

The new Vantage BYOM feature allows data scientists and data engineers to finally operationalize all their predictive models. Find out more.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

Sesie Bonsi. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. hit nearly $1.8 billion in the first half of 2021 — a fourfold increase from the previous year. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC.

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In Conversation: Charles Rue, Head Of Talent Acquisition, IHS Markit

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Hire IQ by HackerEarth is a new initiative in which we speak with recruiters, talent acquisition managers, and hiring managers from across the globe, and ask them pertinent questions on the issues that ail the tech recruiting world. For this first edition, we spoke with Charles Rue, Head of Talent Acquisition (EMEA) , at IHS Markit. Diversity and inclusion are topics close to Charles’ and his work is a reflection of his efforts to make the tech world a bigger better place for coders of all

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Build your own online shop with Next.js and Shopify

Netlify

When Shopify expanded their Storefront API , the developer experience team at Netlify jumped ON it to play around with all of the different ways we could build a shopping site. I decided to try my hand at building it with Next.js! I also built a version with React and Astro, if you’d like to read about it. If you are interested in how I built the Next.js version, keep on reading.

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Build a your own online shop with Next.js and Shopify

Netlify

When Shopify expanded their Storefront API , the developer experience team at Netlify jumped ON it to play around with all of the different ways we could build a shopping site. I decided to try my hand at building it with Next.js! I also built a version with React and Astro, if you’d like to read about it. If you are interested in how I built the Next.js version, keep on reading.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.